thou steel at all for the nations and for men in the book in the maker of this universe. in the latter part of the 19th century, american publishers were aggressive in reprinting popular british authors without authorization and often without payment in the fierce competition for the foreign titles in the 1880s which led to the overproduction of cheap paper covered books and a ruinous butting of the market, robert louis stevens on copyrighted works are widely reproduced as for mrs. humphrey, robert ellesmere, some of which went into ten unauthorized editions. when hope published and authorized in addition in 1886, he assured thomas harding that we will do the best we can withh that in these distressing times when it seems next to impossible to do anything with anything. so, aggressive was the reprint industry at the time. o-oscar whoscar wilde learned ts a victim of american pirates while on his famous tour of the united states in 1882. in addition of the poems printed together with one of his lectures had appeared in a pamphlet and george munro's library and it quickly a